What tree is this?
 

Pretty sure it's a native species, I cut it out in the bush someplace last fall..

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/a9Hz9MUl.jpg[/IMG]

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Birch I think.

Birch.

A birch or a cherry

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Cherry flavored birch

It’s an Alder (part of the birch family).

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Alder

Cause I had one once and a guy called Treeguy said so.

Never trust that guy. :love0025: Get too close to him and next thing you know you'll have a dozen magpies in your garage pooping all over the place!! :scared0018:

With red bark ? That threw me.

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Yeah. Based on colour and bark striations in the first pic I’d have said Amur Cherry. It’s the upright catkins and twig structure in the second that are the giveaway.

As for the reddish bark colour, I’d say it’s a result of stress due to replanting and sun scald from whatever exposure it has as well as the close proximity its planted to a reflective structure.

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Thank you!!
Are they actually a native tree here in NE Alberta? Remember seeing them all my life I think.....but not very populous?

Take a close look at the buds on a second picture. I would say birch for sure! Young birch twigs do have reddish colour.

Second photo has reddish bark

https://www.awes-ab.ca/species/river-alder/

That’d be birch, in my opinion. I am fairly positive. 100% not whatever cherry. Pretty certain it ain’t no alder either. Can’t think of the name at the moment, but it is a birch.

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I would say birch, but would like to see shape of leaf to confirm.

Maybe a Puzzy Willow.....??

I do know what some of you mean, young birch can look pretty red sometime. Although my tree knowledge is poor, I do know this isn't a birch. I have lots of them, and in fact tap several every spring and make syrup.

Definitely it is Birch

I called them “river birch” or “birch willow”. Had to cut some to make an arbor for my son’s wedding photos. The arbor eventually fell apart and became firewood but wedding vows are still holding.

My $0.02, but I wouldn't put money on it
 

Looking at the seed pods, it looks like a Western Red Birch. aka Red Birch, River Birch, or Water Birch.

https://oaksummitnursery.ca/products...s-betula-nigra

While the bark looks similar, the fruit/seed pods of the Speckled Alder are different than those in the second photo you posted.

https://www.uwgb.edu/biodiversity-ol...s/alninc01.htm

^ This. Red or river birch. Some call black birch, I believe.